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I need to write a desktop application in python that would take a tcpdump on the users' desktop and HTTP POST the dump to a server. Has anyone used Dabo before? Any other suggestion for Desktop Client Frameworks in Python?

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enlightenMe
I've found wxPython pretty straight forward - I understand Dabo is based on wxPython but haven't used it myself. I suspect it will be even more straight forward?
utnick
sounds like ur app would be better on the commandline

but wxpython seems to be the most popular

dazzawazza
I've used wxPython for a very large game editor. It is (or at least was a few years ago) the most complete desktop API for python. It's very easy to use and the examples make it easy to knock together a prototype VERY quickly that can be extended to a full application.

There are some issues on the OSX port though which tends to lag behind the Linux/Windows version on bug fixes (not by design but due to having fewer developers devoted to OSX).